Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Shashi Tharoor

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Elliott Abrams

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Eduardo Paes

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people.

Shinzo Abe

China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Janos Kadar

The ranks of the Party will thin out, but I do not fear that pure, honest and well-meaning Communists will be disloyal to their ideals.

Helen Suzman

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Vladimir Putin

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Bill Gates

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equal. In the United States, you are equal. Is the NBA a communist bloc? Or is this an equal democracy? He needs to figure that one out. And if he doesn't, I'm going to make it a democracy.

Elia Kazan

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

Chiang Kai-shek

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

Douglass North

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Pat Robertson

launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

We are being left behind. The consumer's sitting there going, I feel like I live in Communist Cuba I'm forced to take what they give me.

Hal Sparks

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is about a communist sympathizer in tights who, uh, takes people's hard earned money and gives it to lazy people.

John Wayne

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

Hu Jintao

As everyone knows, after 1989 the Communist Party and the government used all the necessary means to appease the situation in China,

Gyorgy Ligeti

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

Fritz Sauckel

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

Fritz Sauckel

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

Karl Marx

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Herbert Hoover

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

John Lydon

I've never said I'm a communist.

Otto Weininger

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

Lech Walesa

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.